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What Happened to the Insurtech Revolution?(en.globes.co.il)
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by tharne 5y ago
I've always found it fascinating that governments have such a hard time increasing the birth rate - many have tried and most have failed miserably. I guess some things you just can't "nudge".
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> Can't you also have a situation where value is a lost and there is a net loss in wealth? For sure. If you had invested in Japanese stock market at its peak in 1989, you'd still be down more than 30 years later.
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I understand options, and certainly using puts to cover the downside. I'm just paranoid about accidentally f*king that up and taking a bath to end all baths.
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Options are terrifying. I don't think retail investors should be allowed to short stocks. Very few people understand the concept of an unlimited downside.
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by tharne 5y ago
There's a meaningful difference between casino-style gambling and investing in something like stocks or cryptocurrency. Specifically, in a casino the odds are known and fixed in favor of the house. If I'm playing roulette at the c
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> Where does this romantic idea of poor but free but noble peasants come from? It comes from people promoting socialism and communism. They need to lie to justify an oppressive system that only develops through force. That's way you
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Well, that's how they kept real estate prices down.
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> Why is it so hard for many HN readers to consider that cannabis might cause schizophrenia? There are tons of studies demonstrating a correlation, so it's not impossible that there is a causation too. If you went to school in the U
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> So that engineer moves on and accepts a 40% raise elsewhere. The other thing you see is talented engineers moving into management even we they don't really want to, so that they can get paid what they're worth. In some cases
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> Unless your company can afford a month-long interview process for every candidate which the author suggests, this is the best we have. If the current leetcode style of interviewing is the best that SV can come up with, despite having s
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by tharne 5y ago
The leetcode style of interviewing is essentially a legal way to practice age discrimination. When you're young and just starting your career, you typically have nothing but time, and doing programming challenges on evenings and weeken
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by tharne 5y ago
> My objection is maintaining an entirely unrelated skillset that I have never encounter in my day to day work. This is precisely my objection. Time is the one thing you can't make more of, so to have companies force you to learn an
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by tharne 5y ago
I didn't realize n + 1 was still around. I don't much agree with their politics, but it's nice to see an indie print magazine hold its own these days.
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> And I'm amazed at how gold-bug conservatives so conveniently ignore the previous 13 years of furious money-printing that accompanied near-zero inflation levels. No one's ignoring the last 13 years of furious money printing. W
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> They tell you exactly what they are buying and do, in fact, adjust for qualitative differences like reduced service at a hotel. The original point in this thread was that it's laughable to do this to tenth of percent or more, when
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by tharne 5y ago
In most cases I would agree with you regarding experts, but we're talking about economists here, not real experts. Let's take just one example, Nobel Prize winning Economist and New York Times contributor, Paul Krugman. The 1998,
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by tharne 5y ago
No, this has to do with prices and values. If you're getting a higher quality of surgery for the same price as before, the cost of a surgery has effectively gone down.
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And then there's the behavioral shifts that take place too. If the price of socks goes up by 40%, some folks put off buying new socks or start mending the old socks they have, taking pressure off the price of socks through lower demand
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I'm amazed at the amount of rhetorical gymnastics going on in DC to lay the blame for inflation at the feet of anything besides the obvious - the massive amount of money printing going on the last few years. The most ridiculous of thes
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I've noticed that too. It's as if they all skipped the first month of high school science class.
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> Human behavior is remarkably different depending on whether or not I'm the sole person on stage responsible for an action or whether I'm a single anonymous vote. This is exactly it. In a large organization, everyone can menta
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by tharne 5y ago
You correctly point out a lot of the crap, but there's good news too. One thing that's really cool is the explosion of new programming languages. In the last decade or two, we've seen Clojure, Rust, Go and a whole bunch of ot
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by tharne 5y ago
> Suicide nets were a result of western over reaction to relative few cases of suicides So just to be clear, how many low-wage workers have to kill themselves before we say it matters?
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by tharne 5y ago
To be fair, this was a bipartisan lie we were all sold in the 1990's. Democrats and Republicans alike convinced Americans that globalization would result in everyone having better jobs in what is now known as the "creative class&q
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by tharne 5y ago
> Does every retired boomer living quite well off their 401K retirement plan represent a member of 'the investor class'? That is an academic argument at best. Just because someone buys a Vanguard index fund with several thousan
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> Not an english speaker, so is Is "slave" correctly used here or is more like a "metaphor"? "Slave labor" is a phrase used in English to express morally unacceptable working conditions where the workers hav
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I don't know why people keep expressing surprise at things like this. Contrary to what the U.S. Supreme Court would have you believe, corporations are not people and do not have morals or values. They are organizations that seek to max
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> If you're rich you get all kinds of people in your life soliciting your money, you gotta watch it like a hawk, it's easy to lose a billion dollars. People forget this far too often. No matter how much money a person or an org
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I've been meaning to try GNU Guix for a while and haven't gotten around to it. Distro hopping is a pain in the ass when you have a lot of other stuff going on.

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